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Crime and Justice News
Jan 2, 20242 min read
Amid Addiction Crisis, A Move To OK Medicaid For Mental Hospitals
The linked crises of drug addiction and homelessness have Washington on the verge of embracing a health care provider it once repudiated:...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20232 min read
Kansas Medicaid Expansion Could Help Cut Jail Totals, Advocates Say
Experts and proponents of a potential Kansas Medicaid expansion say that it could reduce jail populations and reduce recidivism rates,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20232 min read
Grand Central Stabbing Suspect Had Frequent Prior Police Run-ins
,The New York Times reports that the man who stabbed two teenage sisters in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day had encountered the...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Idaho Places Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Despite Warnings
Idaho will soon be the last state in the nation to legally sanction the practice of imprisoning patients who are “dangerously mentally...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Researchers: Correctional Officers Suffer Distress, Risk Suicide
A team of Northeastern University researchers headed by Natasha A. Frost is conducting the first long-term study of occupational stress,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20231 min read
Sister: Man Struggled with Mental Illness Long Before Attack of Preschool Class in D.C.
Last month, a 43-year-old Maryland woman saw on social media that her brother, Russell Fred Dunkley III, 38, was involved in in an...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 9, 20231 min read
Emergency Departments Overwhelmed by Young Patients With Mental-Health Concerns
While anxiety, depression and other mental-health conditions started to climb among children before Covid, they soared during the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 27, 20232 min read
Maine Mass Shooting Revives Debates Over Guns, Mental Health
In Maine, “guns are a fact of life,” the Trace reported. “Nearly half of all households own one, mostly for hunting and recreation,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Tenn. Sheriffs Say Jails Full Of People Seeking Mental Treatment
Several Tennessee sheriffs say that because of the closing of state-run psychiatric hospitals, county jails are filled with people...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 10, 20231 min read
New CA Law Could Force Treatment For Addiction, Mental Health Issues
More Californians with untreated mental illness and addiction issues could be detained against their will and forced into treatment under...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 2, 20232 min read
California Mental Health 'CARE' Courts Start In Seven Counties
A mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 20, 20232 min read
New California Courts Can Force People Into Mental Health Care
A new civil ‘CARE Court’ system will launch in eight California counties this fall, where family members and first responders can ask...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 20, 20232 min read
MO Says Jail Inmates Must Wait 8 Months For Mental Treatment
Missourians who are arrested, deemed unfit to stand trial and ordered into mental health treatment are detained in jail for an average of...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 29, 20233 min read
Growth of Civilian Crisis Response Teams Fails to Settle Debate
When the family of a Jersey City, N.J., man grew concerned last weekend that he wasn't taking his medication for his bipolar disorder and...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 24, 20232 min read
911 Mental Health Referrals Have 'Failed To Live Up To Their Potential'
Dispatchers at the 911 center in Mesa, Ariz., have three levers to pull: fire/medical, police or mental health. The last one was adopted...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 28, 20231 min read
England Police Will No Longer Respond to Non-Life-Threatening Mental Health Calls
Under new plans, police officers in England will no longer respond to concerns about mental health if there is no risk to life or crime...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 25, 20232 min read
Chicago Begins Push to Reopen Mental Health Clinics
During a hearing on the signature plank of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive public-safety platform, a proposal to reopen the city’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20232 min read
San Antonio Crisis Response: Systemic Failure or One-Off Mistake?
Murder charges against three San Antonio police officers for the shooting death last month of a mentally disturbed woman at her home have...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Mayors Trek to D.C. to Ask for Help With Mental Health Crisis
A bipartisan group of mayors visited Capitol Hill this week to share with lawmakers the impacts of the mental health crisis in their...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 19, 20232 min read
Mixed Verdict for Minneapolis' Mental Health Response Program
Two years after its launch as a pilot program, Minneapolis' crisis response program faces mixed reviews and uncertainty about how long it...
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